George Haddon

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Late 20th century Melbourne newspaper cartoonist.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
George Haddon
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Residence
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Active Period
  • c.1980- c.2005
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

cartoonist, worked on the Melbourne Herald in the 1980s. His cartoons include Silence Out Of Court 17 December 1984 (included by Christine Dixon, not ill.). He co-authored several animal books with former Sun writer Alan Trengrove. 'Australia’s magnificent cartoonists’, Bulletin 12 November 1985, 102, included a Haddon cartoon of Ronald Reagan thinking to himself, “Now I’ve just got to keep calm, size up the situation rationally, and ask myself … What would John Wayne have done?”

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Alan Trengrove
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Silence Out Of Court
Date
1984
Citations:
  • Radcliffe, Russ (ed.), (2005), It's all happening: the Scribe book of Australian sports cartoons, (Place: Melbourne, Victoria: Scribe)
  • (12 November 1985), Australia's magnificent cartoonists, (Place: Bulletin, Sydney, New South Wales)
  • Germaine, Max, (1990), Artists & galleries of Australia, (Place: Roseville, New South Wales: Craftsman House (3rd, enlarged, edition))